{"id":2421,"date":"2011-07-10T02:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T01:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elwinlee.com\/blog\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2017-03-24T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T19:12:09","slug":"google-maps-short-urls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/google-maps-short-urls-2\/","title":{"rendered":"[How] Google Maps Short URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The experimental short GoogleMaps<\/a> URLs stopped working since the beta launch of Google+<\/a>. This was very upsetting, because we were sent back to the stone-age with super duper long URLs. For example this is the full link to GoogleMaps with a view on my old university in Eindhoven The Netherlands https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/preview#!q=Technische+Universiteit+Eindhoven%2C+Centrum%2C+Eindhoven%2C+Nederland&data=!1m4!1m3!1d5018!2d5.4893414!3d51.4487944!4m11!1m10!4m8!1m3!1d1563190!2d-74.724323!3d40.07304!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!17b1<\/a>.
\nIt would get even longer if you have more search terms and filtering enabled.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the main reason why you people are reading this.<\/p>\n

Go to http:\/\/goo.gl\/<\/a> and simply paste your GoogleMaps URL and voila!!
\nOur new link would be http:\/\/goo.gl\/JmgYe<\/a>
\nThere you have it! Short links again \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It requires a bit more work than the Labs<\/a> experiment (clicking on the link button vs. going to http:\/\/goo.gl\/<\/a> and enter the url). http:\/\/goo.gl\/<\/a> works with every link you want to shorten and it saves all the short urls that you’ve made before if you have a Google Account!! Here’s the short(er) link to my blog http:\/\/goo.gl\/UxBIh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to get Google Maps Short URLs (July 2011) after Google removed the option from the experimental Google Labs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1079,255],"tags":[1081,1082,476,1083,786,882,883,885,886,887,888,908,909,910,911,912,1080],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to-fix-stuff","category-technology","tag-goo","tag-gl","tag-google","tag-account","tag-working","tag-google-maps","tag-short-url","tag-short","tag-google-labs","tag-labs","tag-short-link","tag-maps","tag-url","tag-link","tag-plus","tag-google-plus","tag-goo-gl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t